But Obama’s connection with Ellison is emblematic of something deeper than fighting domestic injustices against Moslem Americans, which is not now and never was a serious problem. Indeed, this connection is ominous of a hidden agenda, an agenda for reconciling Islam and America with an ill conceived and dangerous plan that would become a national catastrophe if put into practice. Am I insinuating that Obama is a secret, practicing Moslem, or a subversive stealth jihadist like Ellison seems to be? That he is wickedly planning to subvert our constitutional Republic and replace it with a Moslem state ruled by Islamic Law? Absolutely not! Obama is not that sinister. He’s a well meaning leftist fool paving the way to national suicide with the best intentions in the world.

What then is Obama up to? What does he have planned? To answer the question we need to recall the morning of June 3rd, the day that Obama flew to Saudi Arabia to consult with King Abdullah on the content of his Cairo Speech. For on that morning at the White House before his trip, as Obama was being interviewed by French TV, he seems to have briefly lost his mind and shocked us with the astonishing words that “the US was one of the largest Moslem nations in the world.”

This was not a mere gaffe like his 57 states mistake, or a statement of fact as America with its 3 or 4 million Moslems ranks 52nd on the population scale. Far from being a gaffe it was a careless slip of Obama’s dissembling tongue; a hidden card that fell from his hand blind and unplanned-like the slip he made with Joe the Plumber on reviving the ruinous welfare state and massively spreading wealth for “everyone‘s good.”

After ten disastrous months of Obama’s bungling presidency many Americans, agreeing with Nicolas Sarkozy, rightly see him as an impractical, unrealistic utopian idealist mentally dwelling in an abstract realm detached from world realities and everyday life-Sarkozy’s “virtual reality.” Indeed, Obama often sees the world as he would like it to be, not as it is, and recklessly acts on his ideals. And on the morning of his trip to Saudi Arabia, when he made that remark to French TV, Obama was having a fit of idealism; he was speaking in terms of “ought” and “should be;” not America as it is but “the more perfect Union” of his badly misguided dreams; a society needing to be radically changed if peace with Islam is to be attained.

Though America is far from being a large Moslem state in Obama’s view this is not how it should be; in his view this is a large measure of the problem dividing America and Islam; in his view America should have tens and millions of Moslems more, not a paltry, insignificant three or four.

For Obama America is way too Western and Christian for its own national good; way too Western and Christian for good relations with Islam; way too Western and Christian for world peace. As reconciliation of America and Islam is the centerpiece of Obama’s foreign policy how then could Islam, with its one billion souls, live in peace with America when too few of its citizens are believers? When our national character is way too Western and Christian? How could there be US-Islamic peace when Islam in America is a small, mostly invisible, insignificant part of our national life? With only 1200 mosques and a few hundred schools and a pathetically low conversion rate-mostly among blacks; when only one member of Congress out of more than 500 is Moslem, how can America and Islam live in peace?

Non-Moslem America by its very exceptional existence as a great world power is an affront and humiliation to Islamic sensibilities and supremacism*; it’s an “aggression**” against the once mighty faith paining by its staggering greatness believing Moslems everywhere. If, believes Obama, the clash of civilizations is to end; if peace is to reign between Islam and the people of this land then our excessively Western character must be tempered and changed: America, in short, must be partially remade in the image of Islam.

As frightening as it is insane Obama’s plans for making peace with Islam is to open the floodgates of Moslem immigration and grow by huge numbers America’s Moslem community. More Moslems at home shrinks the American-Moslem divide worldwide. Unless Moslems have a greater share in American power, wealth and governance peace with Islam will not prevail, and the clash of civilizations will go on.

Obama has studied the history of Islam and keenly feels its pain: its agonizing collapse into powerlessness and squalor after centuries of military and imperial glory; and now he wants to change all that by making Islam powerful again by dramatically multiplying the number of Moslems in American cultural and political life. Keith Ellison is the beginning; he’s the forerunner of a Congress filled with Moslem lawmakers sworn into office on the holy Koran. This is Obama’s vision and plan for America; the America that ought to be; the America of the ideal future. An America where Islam having a high and honored place is at peace with the Moslem world and free from the scourge of Islamic terror.

Obama is not a stealth jihadist in Christian cloths secretly working to make the Koran the constitution of our land. What he is, is a useful liberal idiot and leftist dolt of the Islamic supremicist cause making him as subversively dangerous as the worst of our jihadist foes.

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